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Harry C. Bradley (actor)
Harry C. Bradley (April 15, 1869 – October 18, 1947) was an American film actor. He appeared in more than 200 films between 1930 and 1946. Selected filmography * ''Roadhouse Nights'' (1930) - Hotel Desk Clerk (uncredited) * ''The Smiling Lieutenant'' (1931) - Count Von Halden (uncredited) * '' The Dark Horse'' (1932) - Blue Ribbon Man (uncredited) * ''Beauty Parlor'' (1932) - Henry Mason * ''Skyscraper Souls'' (1932) - Johnson, Dwight's Secretary (uncredited) * ''American Madness'' (1932) - Sampson (uncredited) * ''70,000 Witnesses'' (1932) - Train Conductor (uncredited) * ''Prosperity'' (1932) - Man Whose Pants Need Mending (uncredited) * ''The Kid from Spain'' (1932) - Man in Line at Mexican Border (uncredited) * ''If I Had a Million'' (1932) - Uniformed Bank Guard (uncredited) * '' Silver Dollar'' (1932) - Messenger (uncredited) * '' The Billion Dollar Scandal'' (1933) - Minister (uncredited) * ''Employees' Entrance'' (1933) - Employee Who Refuses Paycut (uncredited) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Francisco, California
San Francisco (; Spanish for " Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the fourth most populous in California and 17th most populous in the United States, with 815,201 residents as of 2021. It covers a land area of , at the end of the San Francisco Peninsula, making it the second most densely populated large U.S. city after New York City, and the fifth most densely populated U.S. county, behind only four of the five New York City boroughs. Among the 91 U.S. cities proper with over 250,000 residents, San Francisco was ranked first by per capita income (at $160,749) and sixth by aggregate income as of 2021. Colloquial nicknames for San Francisco include ''SF'', ''San Fran'', ''The '', ''Frisco'', and ''Baghdad by the Bay''. San Francisco and the surrounding San Francisco Bay Area are a global center of economic activity and the arts and sciences, spurred ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Employees' Entrance
''Employees' Entrance'' is a 1933 pre-Code film about the devious manager of a New York department store (Warren William) and his romantic involvement with a reluctant new employee (Loretta Young). It was directed by Roy Del Ruth. In 2019, the film was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". Plot Kurt Anderson is the ruthless, hard-driving general manager of the Monroe department store. The store is a financial powerhouse because of Anderson's brutally efficient strategies and autocratic leadership. When a new clothing supplier, Garfinkle, tells Anderson that part of the large first order will be delayed three days because of labor trouble, Anderson cancels the order and instructs his secretary to sue for damages. Garfinkle is ruined, but Anderson doesn't care. After closing, Anderson overhears Madeline Walters playing a store piano. Broke and unemployed, she is going ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Stranger's Return
''The Stranger's Return'' is a 1933 American Pre-Code drama film directed by King Vidor and starring Miriam Hopkins, Lionel Barrymore and Franchot Tone. It was released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Miriam Hopkins was loaned out to MGM for the picture while under contract to Paramount. Plot Miriam Hopkins plays Louise Storr, a recently divorced New Yorker who travels west to Iowa to visit her paternal grandfather, a relation she has never met. Grandpa Storr (Lionel Barrymore) an 85-year-old patriarch, presides over his large farm and its employees. A number of distant relatives are long time residents in his household. They receive the city-girl granddaughter with reserved solicitude. Miriam meets the owner of the adjoining property, the married farmer Guy Crane (Franchot Tone), an Eastern-educated Iowan she finds attractive. Grandfather Storr's unconcealed preference for his close blood-kin Louise creates tension in the household. She is tested by the resident relatives and farm h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Love That Man
''I Love That Man'' is a 1933 American pre-Code drama film directed by Harry Joe Brown and written by C. Graham Baker, Casey Robinson and Gene Towne. The film stars Edmund Lowe, Nancy Carroll, Robert Armstrong, Lew Cody, Warren Hymer, Grant Mitchell and Dorothy Burgess. The film was released on June 9, 1933, by Paramount Pictures. The film's sets were designed by the art director David S. Garber. Plot Cast *Edmund Lowe as Brains Stanley / Roger Winthrop *Nancy Carroll as Grace Clark * Robert Armstrong as Driller *Lew Cody as Labels Castell *Warren Hymer as Mousey * Grant Mitchell as Dr. Crittenden *Dorothy Burgess as Ethel * Walter Walker as Mr. Walker *Berton Churchill as Mordant *Susan Fleming as Miss Jones *Luis Alberni as Angelo *Lee Kohlmar as Old Man Cohen * Harvey Clark as Fred J. Harper *Belle Mitchell as Maria *Leon Holmes as Abe * Esther Muir as Babe * Patrick H. O'Malley, Jr. as Prison Interne *Lloyd Ingraham Lloyd Chauncey Ingraham (November 30, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melody Cruise (film)
''Melody Cruise'' is a 1933 American pre-Code musical romantic comedy film directed by Mark Sandrich, his first feature film with sound. The film received praise for Sandrich's creative direction and solidly established him as a commercial director. Plot On a cruise liner, a bachelor millionaire is subject to the attention of women who are seeking a rich husband. Principal cast * June Brewster as Zoe * Shirley Chambers as Vera * Chick Chandler as the steward Hickey * Marjorie Gateson as Mrs Grace Wells * Phil Harris as Alan Chandler * Helen Mack as Laurie Marlowe * Greta Nissen as Elsa Von Rader * Florence Roberts as Miss Potts * Charles Ruggles as Pete Wells Uncredited * Betty Grable as a stewardess Box office The movie made a profit of $150,000. Reception ''New York Times'' critic Mordaunt Hall found the film to be a "conventional farce", but praised "the imaginative direction of Mark Sandrich, who is alert in seizing any opportunity for cinematic stunts" and whose work ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Have Lived
''I Have Lived'' is a 1933 American drama film directed by Richard Thorpe and starring Alan Dinehart, Anita Page and Allen Vincent.Pitts p.93 Plot A playwright discovers an actress to star in his latest play, unaware of her secret background. Cast * Alan Dinehart as Thomas Langley * Anita Page as Jean St. Clair * Allen Vincent as Warren White * Gertrude Astor as Harriet Naisson * Maude Truax as Mrs. Genevieve 'Mousie' Reynolds * Matthew Betz as Blackie * Eddie Boland as Sidney Cook * Florence Dudley as First Actress * Gladys Blake as Second Actress * Dell Henderson as J.W. * Harry C. Bradley (actor), Harry C. Bradley as Small Town Man * Edward Keane (actor), Edward Keane as Leading Man References Bibliography * Michael R. Pitts. ''Poverty Row Studios, 1929–1940: An Illustrated History of 55 Independent Film Companies, with a Filmography for Each''. McFarland & Company, 2005. External links * 1933 films 1933 drama films American black-and-white fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Working Man
''The Working Man'' is a 1933 pre-Code American comedy film directed by John G. Adolfi and starring George Arliss and Bette Davis. The screenplay by Charles Kenyon and Maude T. Howell is based on the story ''The Adopted Father'' by Edgar Franklin. The film is preserved in the Library of Congress collection. Plot Successful shoe manufacturer John Reeves is annoyed with his staff, particularly his conceited nephew and company general manager Benjamin Burnett (who considers himself the driving force behind the firm), because they are losing ground to their longtime chief rival, headed by former best friend Tom Hartland. The two men had had a falling out after falling in love with the same woman; she married Hartland, and Reeves remained a bachelor. Nevertheless, Reeves is saddened to learn of Hartland's death. When Benjamin begins to muse that his uncle has started down the road to senility, Reeves decides to teach him a lesson. He heads off on a fishing vacation in Maine, leav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Central Airport (film)
''Central Airport'' is a 1933 American pre-Code aviation drama film directed by William A. Wellman (with Alfred E. Green, uncredited), based on the John C. "Jack" Moffitt story, "Hawk's Mate". The film stars Richard Barthelmess and Sally Eilers. ''Central Airport'' was produced and released by Warner Bros., on April 15, 1933. John Wayne had an uncredited part in the film, playing a co-pilot, and this film features his first on-screen death. Plot After his aircraft crashes in a thunderstorm, commercial pilot Jim Blaine is blackballed and unable to find a job flying. Depressed, he begins working as a bank teller until he meets beautiful Jill Collins, a barnstorming parachutist working with her daredevil pilot brother. Jim is immediately attracted to Jill, and when her brother is killed in a freak crash, he reveals his past and volunteers to replace her dead sibling in their act. As they tour throughout the Southwest, their affection turns physically intimate. Jim, believes that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Little Giant (1933 Film)
''The Little Giant'' is a 1933 American pre-Code crime comedy romance. It follows the attempts of an ex-gangster to make his way into high society. The film was directed by Roy Del Ruth and starring Edward G. Robinson and Mary Astor. It was produced and distributed through Warner Bros. The Library of Congress has preserved a print of this film.''Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artists Collection at The Library of Congress'' (<-book title) p.104 c.1978 by The American Film Institute Plot Mobster Jim (Bugs) Ahearn, Edward G. Robinson, realizing that the end of prohibition is only months away, decides to quit the bootlegging racket and work to elevate his culture and status by reading books and investing in art, and ultimately by leaving Chicago for Santa Barbara, where he attempts to fit into the upper crust of s ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Girl Missing
''Girl Missing'' is a 1933 American pre-Code mystery film starring Glenda Farrell, Ben Lyon and Mary Brian. It was directed by Robert Florey and released by Warner Bros. on March 4, 1933. Two women stranded in Palm Beach become involved in the case of a new bride who goes missing on her wedding night. Plot Kay Curtis (Glenda Farrell) and June Dale ( Mary Brian) are two showgirls living in the Palm Beach hotel. When June refuses one of her wealthy male friend's sexual advances, he chooses to let June and Kay pay for their own hotel bills. They decide to ask Daisy Bradford (Peggy Shannon), who is engaged to millionaire Henry Gibson ( Ben Lyon), for help paying the bills because Daisy used to be a fellow showgirl. However, Daisy pretends not to know them. Kay tries to win some money gambling, but ends up losing all their money instead. When they run into Daisy's former boyfriend Raymond Fox (Lyle Talbot) in the hotel, he offers them some money to leave town, but June and Kay ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grand Slam (1933 Film)
''Grand Slam'' is a 1933 American pre-Code comedy film directed by William Dieterle and Alfred E. Green and starring Paul Lukas, Loretta Young and Frank McHugh. The film was released by Warner Bros. on March 18, 1933. Plot A waiter named Peter Stanislavsky learns the game of bridge as a favor to his new bride Marcia, whose entire family plays the game. When he luckily defeats bridge champion Cedric Van Dorn, Peter jokingly claims that he won because of the "Stanislavsky method", and soon becomes world-famous as a bridge expert. Trouble ensues when Peter and Marcia form a team to play in bridge tournaments. Peter infuriates Marcia by questioning her play. Cast * Paul Lukas as Peter Stanislavsky * Loretta Young as Marcia Stanislavsky * Frank McHugh as Philip 'Speed' McCann * Glenda Farrell as Blondie * Helen Vinson as Lola Starr * Roscoe Karns as Contest Radio Announcer * Ferdinand Gottschalk as Cedric Van Dorn * Reginald Barlow as Theodore * Walter Byron as Barne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mystery Of The Wax Museum
''Mystery of the Wax Museum'' is a 1933 American pre-Code mystery- horror film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Glenda Farrell, and Frank McHugh. It was produced and released by Warner Bros. and filmed in two-color Technicolor; '' Doctor X'' and ''Mystery of the Wax Museum'' were the last two dramatic fiction films made using this process."Notes" TCM.com Plot In London in 1921, Ivan Igor (pronounced eye-gor) is a who operates a that is ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
